PINOCHET TO MAKE CHANGES IN NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFORMATION TO IMPROVE INTERNAT

Created: 11/9/1977

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(CNl) WAS THb FIRST !sTCP IN HIS PLANS TO make EXTENSIVE CHANGES IN THE LEADERSHIP EC HE NS Or THE:. he SAID THAT COLONELNDRaDE, FORMER DIRECTOR OT OPERATIONS OPNATIONAL DIRECTORATE INTELLIGENCE (DINA),

THE predecessor organization qf CNl, UlLL replace colonel ra r* el pantojaas sub-director of the CNl, and that

substantial changes hjll also be made at all OThER

HAS DESCRIBED AS. STAUNCHLY ANTI-COHHUSfIJT, AND CONSERVATIVE IN VIEHPOINT, DOcRNER ATTENDED THE6 SESSION OF THE E RI CAN DEFENSE SCHOOL IN HASHING, CO

3. PRESIDENT PINOCHET ALSO SAID THAT THE CNl HAS RELEASED TEN TOERCENT OF ITS MILITARY AND CARABINERO PERSONNEL TO RETURN TO THEIR PARENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THAT AN OVERALL REDUCTION OF ERCENT IS PLANNED. IN ADDITION.

Or THE CIVILIANS HHO HAD BEEN USED BY THE CNI AND PREVIOUSLY BY OINA ARE BEING RELEASED. THE BULK OP THE MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNELINQ RELEASED ARE STONG-ARM TYRES HHO HERE USED IN THE PAST POR DETENTIONS AND SIMILAR ACTIVI TIES.

4. PRESIDENT PINCOHET SAID HE IS MAKING THESEORDER TO IMPROVE CHILE'S HUMAN RIGHTS IMAGE SAID HE REALIZES THAT AS LONG AS THE LEADERSHIP OP THEBASICALLY THE SAHE AS THAT OP ITSDINA, MANY CRITICS OF THE CHILEAN GO VERM EN

HILL INSIST THAT NO REAL CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE.

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CONTRERAS i 8EJARES. AND GENERAL CESAR BENAVIDES, MINISTER or INTERIOR. HERE THE CORE OF *HE GROUP PRESSURING PRESIDENT PINOCHET TO MAINTAIN TOUGH INTERNAL SECURITY POLICIES REGARDLESS Of INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON PINOCHET TO IMPROVE THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS IMAGE* NOW, BENAVIDES HILL BE ISOLATED jS^J^ COMMENT I IT HAS CLEARHATISTAKE JN JEOPARDIZING CHILE'S INTERNAL SECURITY IN ORDER TO APPEASE. AND OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES,)

7. CONTRERAS HAS PL STHOCKED AT HIS OUSTER. DESPITE THE WIDESPREAD FEELING THAT HIS POSITION WAS VULNERABLE AFTER DINA HAS SUPERSEDED BY THE AUGUSTlKENED CONTRERAS' ATTITUDE TC THAT UCKOLDED HUSBAND HKO IS THE LAST TO REALIZE THAT HIS WIFE HAS BEING UNFAITHFUL.*DDEO THAT ITURTHER BLOW TO CONTRERAS TO LEARN THAT HE WAS BEING REPLACED BY GENERAL (RETIRED} OLANIER SALINAS, CURRENTLY CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO URUGUAY AND FORMERLY CHIEF OF ARHY INTELLIGENCE* COMMENT I

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HAS REMOVED rROH HIS ARMY

POSITION ANO RETIRED AFTER HJS DISAGREEMENT MITH CONTRERAS OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT'S 5ECURITV FORCES.

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